Haley Baumeister’s Reviews > Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity > Status Update

"Mother is such a problematic word—like home, like body, like God."

"The end result of this self-divination will be, irony of ironies, our own neutering."
(lol)

a Carl Trueman quote, love to see it.

"And now that I looked, I saw that the whole place was emblazoned with the same kind of over-egged, exaggerated, breathless language. There was 'love' and 'passion' and 'excitement' and 'commitment' everywhere. I've noticed for a few years that the grimier the consuming experience gets, the more flurid becomes the language in which it is wrapped... We are drowning in strategically commercialized passion."

"The thread that links [science and magic] is control. Both the scientific enterprise and the magical quest—which is was part—spring from the same desire: To know the world and bend it to our will."

Oh noooo, someone page Gavin Ortlund! Kingnorth making the classic mistake of defining Sola Scriptura as "no authority but the Bible"!

It's the only *infallible* authority or rule of faith, my man.

Carry on.

"An ideology built on remaking nature for human needs will inevitably include human nature in that project."

What can I say, I'm a substacker in the Year of Our Lord 2025